Well, one happy self isolating bunny here - just finished the L/H rear quarter panel so the top is complete (apart from some very minor tweaks). Without this staying at home it would have taken me a couple of months to get to this stage I think . Now I can think about clearing the carnage and finding my dinning table again!
Started fettling the bottom pieces I blanked out a few weeks ago - don't think I can go much further now without the top section being welded due to the movement that will occur during welding...
If you price your time at £10 per hour, how is the tank comparing with a Beater one from Japan so far?
Dunno - in hours it hasn't taken that long I don't think, and the only option was to make one anyway. I would guess the total will be around 40 hours + the welding. A lot of that time was taken up making the wooden formers.
Thanks. It's as close to the original as I could get from scaling so pretty much the same which was 24 ltr. It will be interesting to see how close it is!
Cool, I only started it 7 years ago (well, the modelling of it) think I purchased the aluminium about a year ago actually just had to sit it on the frame this morning...
I needed to check the gravity feed fuel line route to see if it was OK with where I was intending to place the fuel taps and realised I had never trial fitted the carbs after the final weld up on the frame. Spent an hour playing earlier and all looks tickety boo. I can even use the existing bell mouths which I thought may foul the frame
I made this welding jig for the side fairing mounts last year and had the Cap Head tubes machined up at work - finally got to shaping the rods to connect to the Cam Cover and now all ready for welding on my next trip to Chad's.
Been playing with the front mudguard today. I wanted to use the standard mounts on the forks, but wanted the guard to look reasonably close to the original - so I've hacked it up The bit above the blue tape line in the second picture will be green and the bit below will be satin black to disguise it, giving the colour profile of the original, well near enough anyhoo. I just need to strengthen the mudguard with aluminium on the inside where I have taken a lot of the rigidity out. Before: After:
gorra say, the tank work is pretty impressive. there doesn't look like there is any hammer marks on it. no bad.
Finished shaping the 3 aluminium strengtheners now the mudguard it cut down to add the stiffness back - just bonding the first bit in now. Decided to use gorilla glue as it's less messy than mixing araldite - hopefully it will work. I will be using small counter sunk stainless bolts and Nyloc nuts as well as I don't want a piece of alloy jamming in the brakes if the glue fails . This will also add a feature and hopefully look cool I have 90 mins to wait before the clamps come off...
